Vision
- Is Racism Due To Perceptual Illusions?
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Other people have an accent, but not me. And this is not just because I have no accent. I wouldn’t have an accent even if I had one! Accent is a strange thing (as is my reasoning style). No matter the accent you get stuck with – southern, New Yorker, or my ...
Article - Mark Changizi - Feb 4 2010 - 11:03am
- Why Does Light Make Headaches Worse?
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Migraine sufferers have long complained about how their headaches worsen with bright light, and in case you ever doubted their complaints, Rami Burstein and other researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah re ...
Article - Mark Changizi - Feb 26 2010 - 1:22pm
- Is this simply the coolest optical illusion ever?!
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I really like this optical illusion made by Japanese artist Hajime Ouchi. It's just so simple- just black and white rectangles- and yet has the illusion of both movement and depth. Reminds me a little of some Vasarely images but his were mainly warped ...
Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 10 2010 - 11:53pm
- Opsin And The 600 Million-Year-Old Origins Of Vision
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Researchers writihg in Proceedings of the Royal Society B say they have made a discovery in understanding the origins of human vision. They say they have determined which genetic 'gateway,' or ion channel, in the hydra is involved in light sensi ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:04pm
- Medicated Contact Lenses Could Treat Glaucoma
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Specially medicated contact lenses loaded with vitamin E can keep glaucoma medicine near the eye — where it can treat the disease — almost 100 times longer than possible with current commercial lenses, scientists reported today at the ACS National Meeting. ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2010 - 11:29am
- Eye Computer: Turning Vision Into A Programmable Computer
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Our everyday visual perceptions rely upon unfathomably complex computations carried out by tens of billions of neurons across over half our cortex. In spite of this, it does not “feel” like work to see. Our cognitive powers are, in stark contrast, “slow an ...
Article - Mark Changizi - Mar 25 2010 - 12:16pm
- Are Vision and Consciousness Intimately Related?
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In my article on brain waves and consciousness I looked at some research associating gamma wave activity with consciousness. This is, however, a controversial area in that other researchers have found that such gamma activity is also correlated with eye mo ...
Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Apr 4 2010 - 2:19am
- Writing As Superpower
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Communicating with the dead is a standard job requirement for a psychic such as the infamous medium John Edward of the television show Crossing Over who claims to be able to listen to what the deceased family members of his studio audience have to say. H ...
Article - Mark Changizi - Apr 18 2010 - 9:09pm
- Harness The Wild Eye
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In Writing As Superpower we discussed that writing is really for the eye, at the expense of the hands, despite the fact that our brains may have evolved to comprehend speech. We still prefer to 'listen' with our eyes, despite our eyes not havin ...
Article - Mark Changizi - Apr 18 2010 - 10:20pm
- Writing That Harnesses The Eye: The Trouble With Speechwriters
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In Writing As Superpower I outlined how writing is for the eye, at the expense of the hands, despite the fact that our brains may have evolved to comprehend speech. We still prefer to 'listen' with our eyes, despite our eyes not having been desig ...
Article - Mark Changizi - Apr 18 2010 - 10:19pm
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